Best mobo out of these...

[Ben_UK]

Hello,

System is gonna be a 1GB PC3200 Dual Channel, Radeon 9600XT 128Mb and a AMD Barton 2800XP 333FSB.....just carnt decide on a mobo.

Which one would you go for ?

Asus A7N8X Deluxe nForce2
£81.37 inc. vat

Abit AN7 nForce2
£80.19 inc. vat

Abit NF7-S v2.0 nForce2
£75.08 inc. vat

DFI NFII Ultra Infinity
£76.26 inc. vat

Will not be overclocking, just want a fast stable mobo.

Needs to have good onboard sound.

Be able to last a few years, support the 400FSB chips for example.

Which one would you have then ?

Cheers

[Agent]

NF7-s rev 2

[Zak33]

avoidthe Asus....while I love mine it is really hard to be DEFFO that you'll get a 200 FSB model

Mine wont do it

[blockers]

Abit NF7-S all the way.

AN7 just has one extra BIOS thing, does something random.

Asus - dont like, for no particular reasons, just dont

DFI - never heard of

Will

[Ben_UK]

Does the Abit NF7-S v2.0 support the 400FSB chips though

[Kezzer]

AN7 allows overclocking on the fly using the Guru chip but i would go for the NF7-S v2.0 since they are wuvverly stable and they have soundstorm onboard

[Agent]

Originally posted by Benny
Does the Abit NF7-S v2.0 support the 400FSB chips though

Yep. Mines running at 240mhz (480 mhz DDR) overclocked without a problem. Has been higher.

[blockers]

what RAM you using Agent? got it to the magic 250 mark?

Will

[Agent]

Originally posted by blockers
what RAM you using Agent? got it to the magic 250 mark?

Will

this RAM.

I got to around 247 then i had problems. I really havnt played that much, i should do some more mod's on it, i could probably get better.

[knock_knock]

Clock for clock the DFI is the fastest using 3dmark01se running 200x11/stock radeon 9700pro I scored 400 points more just by changing over motherboards

It comes with soundstorm, saveable BIOS settings, the features of the ABITs plus an extra 2 SATA ports and all you lose is the optical out.

[Byatt]

Originally posted by knock_knock
Clock for clock the DFI is the fastest using 3dmark01se running 200x11/stock radeon 9700pro I scored 400 points more just by changing over motherboards

It comes with soundstorm, saveable BIOS settings, the features of the ABITs plus an extra 2 SATA ports and all you lose is the optical out.

Lose the optical out? Whaaa...that almost defeats the point of having soundstorm!

Get the Nf7-s, does everything you want it to, and is also the cheapest of the bunch.

[Spud1]

i would avoid all these, get the

MSI K7N2 Delta-ILSR Nforce2 £77.43 inc vat

Its the best Nforce2 board out there IMHO, has all the features of the NF7-s, its cheaper, just as stable and has an excellent reputation. Its just not been bought by as many ppl as the NF7-s - not sure why mine runs damn sweet

check it out on the msi website, links wont work so goto the products section on www.msi.com.tw

[Byatt]

Originally posted by Spud1
i would avoid all these, get the

MSI K7N2 Delta-ILSR Nforce2 £77.43 inc vat

Its the best Nforce2 board out there IMHO, has all the features of the NF7-s, its cheaper, just as stable and has an excellent reputation.

Abit NF7-S v2.0 nForce2
£75.08 inc. vat

[kaillum]

yup... another vote for the NF7 boards... i'm using the NF7-M.. but the only difference is the M has onboard GFX...

Damn stable, easy to setup and no problems .. been up for a couple of weeks now

[Craig]

NF7-S 2.0